El Dorado Maroma Beachfront Gourmet All Inclusive Adults Only

This resort is located very close to a sewage treatment plant and you can smell the sewage on the resort grounds and even in the room. Very romantic. To make matters worse the management rudely denied that there was a smell and even lied that there was a sewage treatment plant nearby. They also nicely refused to refund our money when after the second day we wanted to leave and didn't seem to care that we had an issue. Besides the lovely sewage plant aromas they neglected to include in their advertising that the 'gourmet' food was in fact absolutely horrific and we left the resort after the second day with another disappointed couple we met just to have dinner in town every night because none of us could bare to eat another disgusting plateful of what they served in the restaurants. Leaving the resort turned out to be the best part of the trip. Sorry Karizma but frozen packaged food, msg and spoiled fish is not gourmet. They couldn't even cook pasta properly and the sushi was a sad joke. Even the Mexican food we had there was poor and they couldn't even nail breakfast. Just bad all around. And don't expect to have any premium liquor or beer as you would find in a real 5 star resort, the booze was all cheap brands and we were convinced it was watered down. El Dorado Maroma is a 5 star fraud but if you have a 5 extra grand and like sewer smells and eating bad food then knock yourself out. Just don't say I didn't warn you. Oh and the poor, poor schmucks who bought into their outrageously expensive travel club that they try and hard sell you on when you get there. Those poor souls wouldn't know real luxury if it fell on them. You know what they say, there's one born every minute and we certainly learned an expensive lesson about believing all the too good to be true reviews about this resort that's for sure. Cathy

Cath68 wrote on December 8, 2011